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A wonderful afternoon on some fabulous fly water. An excellent height for this beat and felt fishy in many places. Alas no contact with Salmon nor any sightings but I am sure they were there. One lovely Chub got the heart racing. Met another angler, thanks for pork pie and that wine is wasted on me, turn out he lives 5 minutes away from me :-). A great day!
Thanks WUF, if you could now just find me a taker. Be back soon.

One wbt 13",caught during a splendid mayfly afternoon/ evening.

1 Trout

1 x 18 inch WBT caught on a Caddis larva at 11am, 1 x 19 inch WBT caught on a Yellow May emerger at 9pm. In between various sizes between 8 and 12 inches including a Shad around 2lbs and Grayling between 1lb and 2lb. Warm sunny day with reasonable hatch of mays from around 5pm. Strong population of stone clinging Heps and Baetis nymphs, worms and Hydrosphyches. Some large cased Caddis too.

7 Trout, 5 Grayling, 2 Pike

This place is absolutely perfect for a fine day's trout fishing. The river was in tip top condition with just a slight colour to it but otherwise faultless. Great combination of glides and pools all yielding the finest looking brownies I've seen in a long time. I arrived at 8am and left at 4.30pm and caught fish consistently throughout the day. Despite the prolific mayfly hatch, almost all of the action was subsurface and upstream nymph was the order of the day. I began with a hare's ear nymph fished shallow and caught plenty of brownies between 6 and 7 inches, all beautifully coloured and conditioned. On the advice of the cottage occupant, I switched to a deeper presentation and fished the nymph deep into the pools and landed two or three 9 inch brownies and a gorgeous 12 inch grayling. My catch record above is an estimate as I lost count after the 10th fish!

15 Trout, 1 Grayling

3 Trout

Lovely fly water at 8" on Fownhope Gauge but we didn't see a fish or feel a pull all day!

A few fish were rising regularly but not tempted by numerous dry flies I tried, mostly klinkhammers, although I think I missed one or two chances. I am unused to river fly fishing methods and would like to come back sometime with a guide. The sound of drums from the Mill House was unexpected in the countryside, but I got used to it after a while.

Abundant Mayfly but fish only taking them sporadically. Surprising numbers of fish caught in faster shallow water between pools. Similar numbers of takes on CDC Mayfly and Grey Wulff, but much better hooking ratio on CDC pattern. Lots of trout up to ~ 15", and plenty of missed takes. Lovely beat in perfect setting.

17 Trout

Found the fishing here very difficult for trout. Very deep water, access from bank very steep, wasnt a gravel bed as indicated in book, mainly rock. But on the bright side it was a lovely location.

Arrived around 6 ish, lot's of Mayfly coming of the water, also a profusion of yellow may duns and lots of the little brown jobs with the long twin tails (what are they?). No evening rise as such but tempted a trout and 2 grayling with an Adams, all around 8 - 10 inches.

3 Trout, 2 Grayling